TY - JOUR
T1 - Devising a distributed co-simulator for a multi-UAV network
AU - Park, Seongjoon
AU - La, Woong Gyu
AU - Lee, Woonghee
AU - Kim, Hwangnam
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Human Resources Program in Energy Technology of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea (No. 20204010600220), and the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Korean Government (Grant No. 2020R1A2C1012389).
Funding Information:
Funding: This work was supported by the Human Resources Program in Energy Technology of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea (No. 20204010600220), and the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Korean Government (Grant No. 2020R1A2C1012389).
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PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - Practical evaluation of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network requires a lot of money to build experiment environments, which includes UAVs, network devices, flight controllers, and so on. To investigate the time-sensitivity of the multi-UAV network, the influence of the UAVs’ mobility should be precisely evaluated in the long term. Although there are some simulators for UAVs’ physical flight, there is no explicit scheme for simulating both the network environment and the flight environments simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a novel co-simulation scheme for the multiple UAVs network, which performs the flight simulation and the network simulation simultaneously. By considering the dependency between the flight status and networking situations of UAV, our work focuses on the consistency of simulation state through synchronization among simulation components. Furthermore, we extend our simulator to perform multiple scenarios by exploiting distributed manner. We verify our system with respect to the robustness of time management and propose some use cases which can be solely simulated by this.
AB - Practical evaluation of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network requires a lot of money to build experiment environments, which includes UAVs, network devices, flight controllers, and so on. To investigate the time-sensitivity of the multi-UAV network, the influence of the UAVs’ mobility should be precisely evaluated in the long term. Although there are some simulators for UAVs’ physical flight, there is no explicit scheme for simulating both the network environment and the flight environments simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a novel co-simulation scheme for the multiple UAVs network, which performs the flight simulation and the network simulation simultaneously. By considering the dependency between the flight status and networking situations of UAV, our work focuses on the consistency of simulation state through synchronization among simulation components. Furthermore, we extend our simulator to perform multiple scenarios by exploiting distributed manner. We verify our system with respect to the robustness of time management and propose some use cases which can be solely simulated by this.
KW - Multiple UAVs control
KW - Network simulator
KW - Real-time infrastructure
KW - UAV flight simulator
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094618249&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/s20216196
DO - 10.3390/s20216196
M3 - Article
C2 - 33143208
AN - SCOPUS:85094618249
SN - 1424-8220
VL - 20
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Sensors (Switzerland)
JF - Sensors (Switzerland)
IS - 21
M1 - 6196
ER -